{"product_id":"the-dutch-and-german-communist-left-190068-9789004269774","title":"The Dutch and German Communist Left (1900–68)","description":"The Dutch-German Communist Left, represented by the German KAPD-AAUD, the Dutch KAPN and the Bulgarian Communist Workers Party, separated from the Comintern (1921) on questions like electoralism, trade-unionism, united fronts, the one-party state and anti-proletarian violence. It attracted the ire of Lenin, who wrote his \u003ci\u003eLeft Wing Communism, An Infantile Disorder\u003c\/i\u003e against the \u003ci\u003eLinkskommunismus\u003c\/i\u003e, while Herman Gorter wrote a famous response in his pamphlet \u003ci\u003eReply to Lenin\u003c\/i\u003e. The present volume provides the most substantial history to date of this tendency in the twentieth-century Communist movement. It covers how the Communist left, with the KAPD-AAU, denounced 'party communism' and 'state capitalism' in Russia; how the German left survived after 1933 in the shape of the Dutch GIK and Paul Mattick’s councils movement in the USA; and also how the Dutch Communistenbond Spartacus continued to fight after 1942 for the world power of the workers councils, as theorised by Pannekoek in his book \u003ci\u003eWorkers’ Councils\u003c\/i\u003e (1946).","brand":"Philippe Bourrinet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48268764676347,"sku":"9789004269774","price":290.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/CoreSourceHub_985120dc-3e2a-4616-ab2d-b7dd026064d2.jpg?v=1770951991","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/the-dutch-and-german-communist-left-190068-9789004269774","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}